a headshot of a bald Black woman in a white top smiling widely.

Sojourner Ahebee

she/her/hers
Location
Philadelphia

Poet, journalist, and audio storyteller, Sojourner Ahebee archives moments of intimacy between Black women – modeling what intimate care and witness can look like for all of us. She writes about insecurity of historical archives & insecurity as a feeling that connects us to our most powerful desires. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, NPR, The Academy of American Poets, & on your grandmother's radio. A recipient of a MacDowell creative writing fellowship and a Watering Hole fellowship, her debut poetry chapbook, "Reporting from the Belly of the Night," was released in 2017. 

Awarded Grants

2025
Leeway Transformation Award (LTA)

15,000